France, Troyes, Collegiate Church of Saint-Urbain
1270-1280
Pot metal glass
A: 42.0 x 44.0 (16 1/2 x 17 3/8); B: 43.5 x 46.0 (17 1/8 x 18 1/8)
Replacements of the ground in the upper left lobe and of the innkeeper’s sleeves have distorted the shape of panel A, as have breakages and clumsy releading; the lower left lobe of panel B has suffered similarly
Provenance: Henry C. Lawrence, New York; with Duveen Brothers, New York; Clarence Hungerford MacKay, New York; William MacKay
Bibliography: F. de Lasteyrie, Histoire de la peinture sur verre (Paris, l852- 1857), I: 178 and II: pl. XXXI; N.H.J. Westlake, A History of Design in Painted Glass, vol. 2 (London, 1882), 77, pl. LXb; 0.-F. Jossier, Monographie des vitraux de Saint-Urbain de Troyes (Troyes, 1912), 71, 202 fig. a, 2l7 fig. a, 246; Collection of a Well-known Connoisseur, a Noteworthy Gathering of Gothic and Other Ancient Art Collected by the Late Mr. Henry C. Lawrence of New York [sale cat., American Art Association, 27-29 January] (New York, 1921), nos. 344-345, ill.; “Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture-Loans,” Report of the President of Harvard College and Report of Departments (Cambridge, 1951-1952)1 409; Louis Grodecki, “Les vitraux de Saint-Urbain de Troyes,” Congres archeologique 113 (1955), 125, n. 4, 135-136; Ann Hartley Sievers in Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic Art in Europe 1270-1330 [exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design] (Providence, 1977), 144-146, no. 5 6; Carol S. Harward in Caviness et al. (1978), 38-41, nos. 15, 16.
Collection: Portsmouth Abbey (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
Object/Accession: in storage
A. The murder of three school boys; B. The miracle of the golden cup
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